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Community-based participatory research with Mexican migrants in a new rural destination: A good fit?
In this article, the authors reflect on their CBPR project, Salud y Comunidad: Latinos en Montana, which partnered with Mexican migrants in a new rural destination of the Rocky Mountain West. The authors discuss the context of the Montana migrant community, how they forged a research partnership, and the details of their CBPR project. Finally, they attempt to reframe some of the tensions and paradoxes inherent in community-based work with vulnerable communities, and reflect on the question, ‘is CBPR a good fit?’ Letiecq, B., & Schmalzbauer, L. (2012). Community-based participatory research with Mexican migrants in a new rural destination: A…
A dialogue and reflection on photohistory: Engaging indigenous communities in research through visual analysis
This paper describes the application of a methodology termed “photohistory” in a study examining visual depictions of cultural and environmental changes in two First Nations in northern Ontario, Canada. Photohistory combines elements of participatory photography and ethnohistorical approaches, and is the historical collection and analysis of photographs with participants enabling potential temporal comparison of landscape transformations, identification of ancestors, and assertions of socio-cultural continuity. The authors describe the photohistory methodology in detail, highlight the issues that arose while attempting to implement photohistory in their study, and outline what they learned from this process. Lemelin, R. H., Wiersma, E. C., Trapper,…
‘To fill in the missing piece of the Middletown puzzle’: lessons from re-studying Middletown
This paper revisits The Other Side of Middletown, a collaborative ethnography written by a group of faculty, students, and African Americans living in Muncie, Indiana—the town made famous by Robert and Helen Lynd in their 1929 original study, “Middletown”, and its 1937 follow-up, “Middletown in Transition”. The study “The Other Side of Middletown” addressed the lack of African American history and experience in the Lynds’ works, and used a collaborative approach to research and writing. Here, the author describes the social and relational contexts in which the study first developed; elaborates its connections to the Lynds’ original Middletown studies; summarizes…
From controlled trial to community adoption: The multisite translational community trial
A standardized research methodology for translating findings from controlled trials into community application is needed. This paper introduces the multisite translational community trial (mTCT) as the research analog to the multisite randomized controlled trial. The mTCT is adapted to incorporate principles and practices of community-based participatory research to increase relevance and generalizability gained from research in diverse community settings. The mTCT is a tool designed to bridge the gap between what a clinical trial demonstrates can work in principle and what is needed to make it workable and effective in the real-world. Its utility could be put to the test,…
Harnessing the power of the grassroots to conduct public health research in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study from western Kenya in the adaptation of community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches
This paper describes the Orphaned and Separated Children’s Assessments Related to their Health and Well-Being (OSCAR) project, a longitudinal epidemiological study in sub-Saharan Africa that used a CBPR framework. The authors discuss how they incorporated and adapted CBPR approaches and principles during four phases of the project: 1) community engagement, 2) sampling and recruitment, 3) retention, validation, and follow-up, and 4) analysis, interpretation, and dissemination. The authors discuss how community participation throughout these phases enabled and strengthened the project. Kamanda, A., Embleton, L., Ayuku, D., Atwoli, L., Gisore, P., Ayaya, S., … Braitstein, P. (2013). Harnessing the power of the…
Building community participatory research coalitions from the ground up: The Philadelphia Area Research Community Coalition
The Philadelphia Area Research Community Coalition (PARCC) was formed in 2005 by the University of Pennsylvania – Cheyney University of Pennsylvania EXPORT Center. PARCC is a community-academic research partnership that is comprised of 22 organizations and programs of distinct sizes and varied experience in health research. This paper explores PARCC’s process of developing this coalition, the outcomes achieved, governing principles and lessons learned. The developmental processes reviewed include the partnership’s conceptual framework, methods of recruitment of members, working with varied community and academic perspectives on research, the contextual significance of trust as a core tenet of PARCC, and the establishment…
Community-based participatory research with Native American communities: The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
This article provides an overview of the use of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) with Native American communities and discusses the translation of the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program using a CBPR approach with an urban Native American community. This article highlights not only how the CBPR process facilitates the successful translation of the Stanford program but also how CBPR is used within this community to build community capacity. The author provides a detailed account of her experience and concludes that the project’s success was due to its “truly peer-led” participatory approach and the empowerment of those who participated. Jernigan,…
Constructing interorganizational collaboration: The action researcher as a boundary subject
This article aims to explore critically the role of an action research team in the social construction of inter-organizational collaboration aimed at transgressing organizational and professional boundaries. We argue that the new relationships, actor conceptions and in some cases forms of work organization arising from the change process have been socially constructed through the discursive interventions of the researchers. This has largely occurred through informal interaction with and between the actors engaged in the development process. The action researcher, rather than being a neutral discursive gatekeeper in collaborative development projects, is an active constructor of the discourse shaping the collaboration….
Participatory action research: moving beyond the mental health ‘service user’ identity
This paper discusses the process of a participatory action research study that was facilitated by a mental health nurse and involved six people who use statutory mental health services as co-researchers. The process of recruiting and training the service-user researchers is described. The paper also highlights the perspective of the service-user researchers on the process of being involved in the research, as well as the impact that this involvement had on them considering a move beyond the mental illness identity. Hutchinson, A., & Lovell, A. (2013). Participatory action research: moving beyond the mental health ‘service user’ identity. Journal of Psychiatric…
Combining photovoice and focus groups: Engaging Latina teens in community assessment
This article presents a study that combined photovoice (a CBPR methodology) with focus groups to engage Latina teens and their parents in identifying barriers to physical activity and initiating policy actions to address them. The authors also investigate the effectiveness of applying photovoice as both an evaluation tool and a leadership/advocacy intervention in this study. Hannay, J., Dudley, R., Milan, S., & Leibovitz, P. K. (2013). Combining photovoice and focus groups: Engaging Latina teens in community assessment. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 44(3, Supplement 3), S215-S224. Full Text.
Keeping the Scholarship of Engagement in the Review Process
This article summarizes advice and suggestions on how to prepare for and navigate the tenure and promotion process as an engaged scholar. While many of the suggestions are specific to those seeking advancement in the context of the scholarship of engagement, most are relevant to all who seek tenure and promotion. Gelmon, S. & Agre-Kippenhan, S. (2002). Keeping the scholarship of engagement in the review process. Full Text.
Developing strategies for reducing cancer disparities via cross-institutional collaboration: Outreach efforts for the partnership between the Ponce School of Medicine and the Moffitt Cancer Center
This article reports on a collaborative academic institutional partnership between a minority-serving institution and a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. This partnership launched an outreach program to address cancer health disparities in two Hispanic communities in Puerto Rico and Florida. This article outlines the program’s initial collaborative strategies and activities in community outreach, cancer education and research that mutually benefit the Hispanic communities in both Puerto Rico and Florida. Lessons learned and challenges faced by the Outreach Program are presented. Gwede, C. K., Castro, E., Brandon, T. H., McIntyre, J., Meade, C. D., Munoz-Antonia, T.,…Quinn, G., P. (2012). Developing strategies…
Let’s start at the very beginning: the impact of program origins and negotiated community-university partnerships on Canadian radical humanities programs
This article examines the community-university partnerships and the planning process of three Canadian Radical Humanities programs: programs that offer university entry-level humanities to adult learners on the margins of society. Examining these three iterations reveals (1) the importance of clarifying roles and expectations in community-university partnerships, and (2) the significance of program origins, particularly the introduction of frame factors shaping student options and the potential for institutional change. Groen, J. & Hyland-Russell, T. (2012). Let’s start at the very beginning: the impact of program origins and negotiated community-university partnerships on Canadian radical humanities programs. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 31(6),…
Beyond Activity, Place, and Partner: How Publicly Engaged Scholarship varies by Intensity of Activity and Degree of Entertainment
Common descriptors of engaged scholarship—what faculty do, where they do it, and with whom they partner—do not characterize how faculty members collaborate with community partners in engagement activities. This study questioned whether two process-oriented constructs, level of activity and degree of engagement, are useful ways to describe how faculty members go about their collaborations with the public. An interpretive content analysis of 173 promotion and tenure forms demonstrated differences in intensity of activity and degree of engagement by gender, race, age, teaching assignment, joint departmental appointment, appointment length, Extension appointment, and discipline. The authors present the findings and conclude with…
The origins and overview of the W. K. Kellogg Community Health Scholars Program
This paper describes the history, components and evaluations of the W. K. Kellogg Community Health Scholars Program (CHSP). From 1998 to 2007, CHSP trained 46 postdoctoral fellows to develop and enhance skills in working with communities and engage in community-based participatory research (CBPR). Its design and implementation exemplified the partnership principles at the core of the training it provided. Evaluations have shown that CHSP has had substantial impact not only on its participants, but also on academic institutions, community-based organizations (CBOs), policies relating to research funding and implementation, and professional organizations. A key element in this impact has been the…
Participatory action learning and action research for self-sustaining community development: Engaging Pacific Islanders in Southeast Queensland
This paper describes a university-community initiative aimed at improving educational opportunities within a Samoan community in Southeast Queensland, Australia. The initiative demonstrates how participatory action learning and action research processes were used to build the capacity of the Samoan community to address self-identified community needs. These strategies enabled community members to develop and sustain their own projects, and equipped them to pass this ability on to other community members, creating long-term project continuity. Green, A., & Kearney, J. (2011). Participatory action learning and action research for self-sustaining community development: Engaging Pacific Islanders in Southeast Queensland. The Australasian Journal of University-Community…
Development of Project Wings Home Visits, a mental health intervention for Latino families using community-based participatory research
This article details the steps undertaken to develop Project Wings Home Visits, a collaborative school-based, community-linked mental health promotion intervention for Latino adolescents and their families. The intervention was developed using a CBPR approach that involved the cooperation of a community health care system, a public high school, and a university. The process of Project Wings Home Visits demonstrates the benefits and challenges of using CBPR in creating and implementing health promotion interventions. Garcia, C., Hermann, D., Bartels, A., Matamoros, P., Dick-Olson, L., & Guerra de Patino, J. (2012). Development of Project Wings Home Visits, a mental health intervention for…
Supporting community safety through university-community partnerships: Exploring models of engagement
This paper highlights four six-year long projects to explore various models of university-community engagement supporting violence prevention and community safety. These case examples, from the Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships at UNC Greensboro, address issues such as funding, community collaboration, sustainability, leadership, evaluation, and communication. Frabutt, J.M. (2010). Supporting community safety through university-community partnerships: Exploring models of engagement. Journal of Community Engagement, 1(2), 1-13. Full Text.
Accountable to whom? A critical science counter-story about a city that stopped caring for its young
This article sketches a participatory action research project, Polling for Justice (PFJ), which was designed by youth and adults in New York City to evaluate the impact of neo-liberal public policies on young people. PFJ examined young people’s experiences of urban public policy using a critical participatory research approach in which young people had power to shape inquiry into their experiences, decide how to interpret the findings, and then take a lead role in action, in part through radically inverting conventional understandings of who/what should be held accountable. Using the story of PFJ, the authors propose that reconsidering accountability at…
Sometimes there are no notes: An auto ethnographic essay of a collaboration at the engagement interface
This autoethnographic essay represents the authors’ critical reflection on their experiences partnering with Liz Lerman and Dance Exchange (a dance company) artists on a collaborative evaluation of “The Matter of Origins”, a contemporary art and science dance performance. They describe meaningful moments in their collaboration, and reexamine those moments in the broader context of scholarly community engagement. Based on this reflection, the authors identify themes including ethnographic approaches to collaboration, shared systems of meaning, and developmental evaluation to understand the complex experiences that took place at the engagement interface. The essay concludes with suggested reflective questions for scholars to consider…